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  • Ukraine garnered promises of support for Moscow on Saturday, on the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, the famine deliberately caused by the Stalinist regime in the 1930s.

  • The Prime Ministers of Poland and Lithuania, Mateusz Morawiecki and Ingrida Simonyte, thus spoke with their counterpart Denis Chmygal.

    Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo also paid a visit to kyiv, his first since the start of the Russian invasion.

  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced additional aid of 15 million euros to support Ukrainian grain exports.

    Emmanuel Macron also promised an additional 6 million euros for these exports, which are vital for the supply of many countries in Africa and Asia.

  • Volodymyr Zelensky said his people would stand their ground in the face of Russian attacks, which regularly cause massive power and water cuts as winter temperatures set in.

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8:57 am: Macron denounces Russian pressure on cereals

Emmanuel Macron has promised an additional 6 million euros for Ukrainian grain exports, vital for the supply of many countries in Africa and Asia.

“We have chosen to act in solidarity with the most vulnerable countries.

Russia, for its part, continues to exploit hunger as a means of pressure and food as a weapon of war,” he criticized in a message.

08:30: Exchange of prisoners

On the front, exchanges of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine were able to take place on Saturday with 12 people released on the kyiv side.

Moscow, for its part, announced that it had recovered nine of its men.

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On the ground, the situation continues to be particularly complicated for civilians as the cold sets in.

In kyiv, where part of the population has spent the last three days without electricity after massive Russian strikes on Wednesday, the municipality announced on Saturday that it had restored 75% of the power supply and 90% of the heating, as temperatures approach zero degrees Celsius.

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